Invisible

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Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girlfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life. Three differentnarrators tell the story of the novel, which travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights to the Left Bank of Paris to a remote island in the Caribbean.

From the Publisher

Poet and student Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent, seductive girlfriend, Margot, sending Adam into a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter his life, in a novel by the author of Man in the Dark that spans from 1967 to 2007. 75,000 first printing.

Review

Publishers Weekly
"Auster is in classic form....As the plot moves towards a HEART OF DARKNESS-style journey into madness, the limits of Auster's formalism become more apparent, but this study of a young poet doomed to life as a manifestation of poetry carries startling weight."

Review

Donna Seaman - Booklist Upfront
"In this erotic, archly philosophical thriller, Auster, seductive and masterly,...slyly contrasts the subtle pleasures of the mind with the wildness of the body....With fascinating characters, a spiraling structure, and a HEART OF DARKNESS-like conclusion, this is a sublimely suspenseful, insightful, and disquieting novel." (starred review)

More about the book

Paul Auster continues his career-long obsession with the interplay between fiction, reality, memory, and identity in INVISIBLE, the story of a young would-be poet at Columbia University who becomes caught up in the life of an enigmatic French intellectual and his ravishing girlfriend. Told alternately in the first, second, and third person, the novel is simultaneously a story of passion, murder, and revenge as well as a meditation on narrative and meaning.